TwoTone

Do the 13 bezels fit a 2011?

The irony of hitting a grand slam with the Ascent to f it up with that color on the Touring.

The woman running the booth at the time told me they are given a certain allowance on gifts they are allowed to give out. My son is 15 so getting into car and wants a WRX. At the show, as we walk up to a BRZ my son asks me about and I say get a real Subaru, you buy Subaru for the AWD. Well the woman who was rummaging around in the truck was the Subi Rep- foot in mouth. Well she starts talking to me, then asking my son some questions as well. We talked for about 15 minutes. Then she notices my son's STI shirt under his jacket and says hey would you like a gift.

So received my gift from the show

I would assume if underneath like the explorer they should be able to fit a full size spare.

I understand that, but my 2003 Explorer was 11 years old when I sold it. I could crank the wheel down and back up without an issue. I know because I check spare tire pressure once a year. (Spare was outside under the rear) Now I have a Flex (spare inside) and I can't image how bad it would have been to have a flat while on our family road trip around the great lakes in the rain. You'll never convince me it's better on the inside.

I never had an issue when I've had to use a spare that was under the rear. To me it's actually better, I've seen those people loaded up on a road trip- all their stuff on the side of the road because they had to unload everything to get to the spare- no thanks.

Thing is, the manuals aren't selling. It was heavily discounted. Enough that based on a few private sale evaluations of the same car with 1000 miles I would be paying what it's market value is. Hard to beat driving off the lot in a new car and not having it depreciate.

I tried to talk my wife into going and getting a 2017 Jetta GLI 6sp since the 2018s no longer come in a manual. Problem is we are keeping the Legacy for my son and he still has 14 months until he's driving alone. She doesn't want to have it sitting around that long.

I positioned the drivers seat for me then sat in the 2nd row. I had plenty of room. I'm 5'11'' with a 32'' inseam. My son sat in the 3rd row and thought it had as much room as our Flex 3rd row. The variable is the 2rd row slides, so I honestly don't remember where the 2nd row seat was.

I will admit, if VW had a better quality image in my mind it might be hard to decide between the Ascent and the Atlas. It will be interesting to see where the Pricing ends up compared to it.

Got to see it at the Washington Auto Show. I really liked it. Apparently the decision to offer the Touring with Shit Brown leather only isn't popular.

So what is the safety issue related to the wind noise? Seriously do you people think before wasting peoples time? The link on NHTSA site is for safety issues, not frivolous bS.

I wonder how tweakable it will be, want some of the touring option but don't want that god awful brown leather.

We had a Jetta TDI before the Legacy, the price went up in the winter because of heating oil is my understanding. Either way, before they neutered the milage with the new CR engine, we still made out in the long run.

Yea uninformed Dealers. Found out from Subaru the Ascent will be at the DC auto show. Looking forward to getting a good look at it.

Little disappointed to find out it wont be at the Washington DC autoshow.

Good luck with lemon law.

I foresee dealer mark ups. Looks really well thought out.

I have had 2 glass replacement in the past that were not OEM- not on our Subaru. That's it I'm done, the quality was horrible you could see a difference and it was obvious. One was passenger side on my Explorer, it was replace it twice because I complained and finally they just said that the way they were. For a system like Eyesite no way I'd use non OEM glass.

My only point was unless you've tried it with the stock springs, you don't know how much of the difference is the Koni's vs the springs. I kept reading you need to do the 13-14 springs, personally glad I didn't waste the money. The inserts were enough for me since it's a daily driver.

I keep reading this, but I'll be blunt- is anyone that saying this actually tried the inserts with the stock springs or just making assumptions.

Well it wasn't going from used old tired shock to new. The Legacy drove like an old caddie from day one. As much as I liked everything thing else, the ride sucked. So my impression has isn't clouded by that. Somewhere I've said I wish this was the first thing we did to the car when we got it home.

I'll take it a step further since you mention it's a daily driver. Honestly even on stock springs it's a huge improvement. Mine isn't a GT, I all I did were the inserts and I'm more than happy. I'd say it has the Stock German handling I wanted based on my experience with a few VWs.

The dad I was talking about was trying to go from Potomac, MD to Landisville, PA. Yea he got there but then had to drive to 40min north to Harrisburg to charge for the ride south to home. Yup great selling point.